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Who’s the Nazi now?

July 25, 2011 by Dave Knadler

glenn beck norway shootings

Sympathy for the devil.

As someone who used to write newspaper columns and now tries to write blog posts at least four times a month, I can understand the tremendous pressure to come up with topics. Even a lame-ass site like this one is a hungry beast. The more gruel I shovel at it, the more it wants. Sometimes you get desperate. Yesterday I came this close to writing something about the tragic but unsurprising demise of Amy Winehouse, even though we never dated and I probably couldn’t pick a song of hers out of a random lineup of 10 other tunes. Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed.

Or, as I prefer to put it, I have my standards. That’s where I part company with somebody like, say, Glenn Beck. That and the size of our paychecks.

Beck, whom I used to enjoy when he used to be amusing as a hungry kid out of nowhere in Philadelphia, has now weighed in on the mass murder of Norwegian kids: Those kids — the victims — remind him of Hitler Youth. If ever a man should have searched a bit further for a topic, this was that time.

Words fail. But I’ll use them anyway: What the hell, Glenn? Has it come to this? Never mind that Nazi analogies in themselves always reveal the analogist as an idiot. When they are invoked as some feeble explanation for mass murder, the irony is not as subtle as irony should be.  Neither is the message: Glenn Beck, like Amy Winehouse before him, has betrayed whatever talent he once had. Also, he has lost his freaking mind.

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Filed Under: nazis, Other Stuff, politics, radio, Swine

Comments

  1. mac bates says

    July 26, 2011 at 1:26 pm

    I think this goes beyond some warped sense of showmanship. He seems to have developed an unhealthy messiah complex, but when you have to come up with prophesies every day, you end up throwing a lot of shit at the wall to see if it sticks. The right-wing numb-nut pundits have a way of twisting everything to fit their fun-house mirror view of the world. And all-too-often victims become criminals.
    I am looking forward to seeing to see if Fox News gets caught up in the News of the World investigation.

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